 Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.  The Irving Gift: Being Choice Gems - Page 30by Washington Irving - 1853 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1894 - 280 pages
...a gallows air, casting many a sidelong e& glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with...Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on : a tart so temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - English language - 1894 - 188 pages
...be compound. Sometimes an independent clause in a compound sentence is itself compound or complex. A. tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp...the only edged tool that grows keener with constant tise. The second independent clause in this sentence is complex. common of these are : and, either,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Short stories - 1894 - 234 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door •with...yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Eip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - English language - 1894 - 300 pages
...Indians. 4. He said that his farm was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. 5. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper with constant use. LXXXV. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. Many descriptive adjectives are inflected,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...fool's heart is in his tongue ; but a wis« man's tongue is in his heart. — Quartet. TRADE. TRAVEL. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant rise. — Washington Irving. The heart's attorney. — Sliakespeare.... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 392 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1895 - 440 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with...yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Kip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - English language - 1896 - 280 pages
...life is Duty. (25) I have found you an argument ; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. (26) A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Irving. (27) Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb ; And life's enchanted cup... | |
 | Marion Harland - Asylums - 1896 - 328 pages
...wholesale criticism, and it is a habit that grows with fungus-like rapidity. Washington Irving says " that a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use, ' ' and with many people the unruly member has acquired a razor-like edge which contains in itself... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1897 - 50 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
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